Manual response preparation disrupts spatial attention: An electrophysiological investigation of links between action and attention

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 961-969

  Gherri, Elena ^a,b   Eimer, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Event related brain potential; Response preparation; Spatial attention; Visual processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 76749129355     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.11.017     Document Type: Article

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